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Jiri Sekac’s father wasn’t the only one celebrating after his son scored the first goal of his NHL career for the Canadiens in a 6-4 win over the Boston Bruins Thursday night at the Bell Centre. Television cameras caught Jiri Sekac Sr., who had travelled from the Czech Republic for the game, celebrating wildly in […]

Recent commemorative activities — D-Day ceremonies, for example, and Memorial Day events in the States — have drawn attention to the fact that the number of surviving Second World War veterans is dwindling and their stories should not be forgotten.

When Marc Bergevin took over as general manager of the Canadiens, he made sweeping changes in the coaching staff at the NHL and AHL levels, but Bergervin was determined to keep one holdover from the previous regime.

As you fly off to your favourite holiday spot this summer, consider the following cost comparisons on the price of airline tickets. Let’s start with Europe. Imagine you book return flights between five pairs of cities: London-Edinburgh, Paris-Toulon, Milan-Rome, Dusseldorf-Munich, and Barcelona-Madrid.

It was like going back in time. Sitting in a nook in Prague’s old-school dining room, the yellow walls heavy on the stucco, the exposed beams and rails, the dark and double-layered tablecloths, I realized it had been a long time since I’d eaten in a place like this, and that I actually missed it.

“Brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents. I often wondered what it would be like to know your relatives,” Helen Waldstein Wilkes writes, in Letters from the Lost: A Memoir of Discovery.

Nep?izpÛsobiví. This is a mouthful for non-Czech speakers. But its meaning has become a successful political tool for Ivana Rapkova the mayor of Chomutov, a city of 60,000 in the Sudeten area of the Czech Republic.